** Elena Sanz de Limantour ( 1922 – 1979 ), married in 1949 to Robert Borgs, and had issue:

** National Day, celebrates the independence of Saint Lucia from United Kingdom in 1979.

** 1977 – 1979 Golden Eagle

** 1979 Silver Anniversary CJ-5 Limited Edition ( estimated 1, 000 built )

** 1977 – 1979 Jeep Golden Eagle

** 1977 – 1979 Golden Eagle

** Aaliyah, R & B singer and actress ( b. 1979 )

** Soviet war in Afghanistan ( 1979 – 1989 )-Although taking place almost entirely throughout the 1980s, the war officially started on December 27, 1979.

** Josef Mengele, German Nazi war criminal ( d. 1979 )

** Darla Hood, American actress ( d. 1979 )

** Alfred Deller, English countertenor ( d. 1979 )

** Barbara Hutton, American socialite ( d. 1979 )

** Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, Pakistani journalist, theologian, and philosopher ( d. 1979 )

** Lazar Lagin, Soviet writer ( d. 1979 )

** John Wayne, American actor ( d. 1979 )

** S. J. Perelman, American humorist and author ( d. 1979 )

** Hope Summers, American actress ( d. 1979 )

** Leonide Massine, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer ( d. 1979 )

** Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, President of Pakistan and Prime Minister of Pakistan ( d. 1979 )

** Paul Popenoe, American eugenicist ( d. 1979 )

** Ivon Hitchens, English painter ( d. 1979 )

** Gali Atari and Milk and Honey win the Eurovision Song Contest 1979 for Israel, with the song Hallelujah.

** Indianapolis 500: In what Indianapolis Motor Speedway historian Donald Davidson and Speedway public address announcer Tom Carnegie later call the greatest moment in the track's history, 1973 winner Gordon Johncock wins his second race over 1979 winner Rick Mears by 0. 16 seconds, the closest finish to that date, after Mears draws alongside Johncock with a lap remaining, after erasing a seemingly insurmountable advantage of more than 11 seconds in the final 10 laps.

** Jordi Bonet, Canadian artist ( d. 1979 )

** Farnese Atlas, a 2nd-century Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic sculpture of the Titan, " Atlas "

** Pope Celestine I ( Roman Catholic Church )

** Endelienta ( Roman Catholic and Anglican Church )

** Helena of Constantinople ( Roman Catholic Church )

** Bartholomew ( Roman Catholic, Anglican )

** Mary of Egypt ( Roman Catholic )

** Blane ( Roman Catholic Church )

** Roman Missal

** Roman Britain or Britannia, a Roman province covering most of modern England and Wales and some of southern Scotland from 43 to 410 AD

** List of Roman Consuls

** Romano-Germanic subgroup ( comprising those legal systems where legal science was formulated according to Roman Law-see also Civil law ( legal system ))

** Optionally: abbreviation of soldiers ' religion ( KAT for Roman Catholics, GR-KAT for Greek Catholics, PRAW for Orthodox, MOJ for Jewish, AUG for Lutherans, ANG for Anglicans and MAH for Muslims )

** O Sapientia ( Roman Catholic Church )

** Aemilianus ( Roman Catholic Church )

** Francis Xavier ( Roman Catholic Church and Anglican communion )

** Imperial Diet ( Holy Roman Empire ), the imperial assembly of the princes of the Holy Roman Empire until 1806

** Thomas the apostle ( pre-1970 Roman Calendar )

** Annales by Quintus Ennius ( Roman History )

** Aeneid by Virgil ( Roman mythology )

** Metamorphoses by Ovid ( Greek and Roman mythology )

** Pharsalia by Lucan ( Roman history )

** Punica by Silius Italicus ( Roman history )

** Argonautica by Gaius Valerius Flaccus ( Roman poet, Greek mythology )